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#existential

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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. ↗


— Simone de Beauvoir


#feminism #life

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found. ↗


— Walpola Rahula


#cogito-ergo-sum #existence #existentialism #god #humanity

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through. ↗


— Sean Lennon


#existential #express #general #going #i

I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat. ↗


— Simone de Beauvoir


#experience

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone. ↗


— Bill Moyers


#commitment #conveys #emotion #existential #experience

Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why? ↗


— Cormac McCarthy


#existentialism #realist #life

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I. ↗


— Leo Tolstoy


#knowledge #life #philosophy #life

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean. ↗


— P.G. Wodehouse


#humor #life #pondering #humor

There is scarcely any passion without struggle. ↗


— Albert Camus


#passion #struggle #passion

Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. ↗


— Jean-Paul Sartre


#philosophy #sartre #existentialism






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